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Forums - Sales - PS5 Ships 80.3 Million Units as of June 2025

IcaroRibeiro on 07 August 2025
AddRat said:

Feels like the PS5 has shown resilience against factors that would make sales fluctuate in the past.

Don't know how much of that is Xbox hardware practically bowing out or due to changes in what the buyers value and an even stronger brand but it is working out.

I 2025 Q3 42% of PS5 were new users: 

The sales curve of PS5 and PS4 might indicate the same group of people is buying again, but their internal data says otherwise

Not only that, only this year the share of PS5 users surpassed PS4 users among current Playstation userbase, even though PS5 already surpassed 68% of PS4 sales

With the remaining active PS4 users ever upgrade to PS5 we are talking about +49 million PS4 users yet to upgrade, or who abandoned consoles to play on PCs



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jvmkdg on 07 August 2025
Norion said:

I wasn't expecting hardware to be slightly up YoY so this is a good quarter. It was still 0.7m behind the PS4 so the gains in the last two quarters were almost completely wiped out and it'll likely be further behind by the end of this fiscal year but there's a good opportunity for it to reduce the gap in the next one with GTA 6 though a potential price increase due to tariffs could prevent that from happening. I wonder if they're waiting till after this year to do that.

Sony needs a big showcase showing all of its upcoming games, it seems that Sony's studios are dead.



zorg1000 on 07 August 2025

I’m curious if tariff shenanigans caused Sony/retailers to try and get more units on shelves which could explain the YoY increase despite the price increase.



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PotentHerbs on 07 August 2025

One of the best Q1's ever for Sony/PlayStation.

Making over 1B+ in profit in a non holiday quarter is ridiculous. Over 40% of revenue for Sony's first party came in the form of live service, which Sony listed as MLB, Destiny 2, Helldivers 2 and Gran Turismo 7.



Blood_Tears on 07 August 2025
Norion said:

I wasn't expecting hardware to be slightly up YoY so this is a good quarter. It was still 0.7m behind the PS4 so the gains in the last two quarters were almost completely wiped out and it'll likely be further behind by the end of this fiscal year but there's a good opportunity for it to reduce the gap in the next one with GTA 6 though a potential price increase due to tariffs could prevent that from happening. I wonder if they're waiting till after this year to do that.

Apparently there may not be a price increase at all for PS5 in the West. A good portion of the manufacturing of it has moved out of China per Sony CFO Lin Tao to 4 countries in total to create a rotating 3 months of inventory shuffle. So we'll see what happens there but so far so good. 



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Signalstar on 07 August 2025
PotentHerbs said:

One of the best Q1's ever for Sony/PlayStation.

Making over 1B+ in profit in a non holiday quarter is ridiculous. Over 40% of revenue for Sony's first party came in the form of live service, which Sony listed as MLB, Destiny 2, Helldivers 2 and Gran Turismo 7.

I am waiting for some sort of announcement but I have a hunch that GT7 might be Sony's highest earning title ever by revenue (if not one its bestselling games ever).



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Norion on 07 August 2025
IcaroRibeiro said:
AddRat said:

Feels like the PS5 has shown resilience against factors that would make sales fluctuate in the past.

Don't know how much of that is Xbox hardware practically bowing out or due to changes in what the buyers value and an even stronger brand but it is working out.

I 2025 Q3 42% of PS5 were new users:

The sales curve of PS5 and PS4 might indicate the same group of people is buying again, but their internal data says otherwise

Not only that, only this year the share of PS5 users surpassed PS4 users among current Playstation userbase, even though PS5 already surpassed 68% of PS4 sales

With the remaining active PS4 users ever upgrade to PS5 we are talking about +49 million PS4 users yet to upgrade, or who abandoned consoles to play on PCs

I wonder how much of that 42% are people who created a new account instead of using their old one cause they forgot the password or whatever.

jvmkdg said:
Norion said:

I wasn't expecting hardware to be slightly up YoY so this is a good quarter. It was still 0.7m behind the PS4 so the gains in the last two quarters were almost completely wiped out and it'll likely be further behind by the end of this fiscal year but there's a good opportunity for it to reduce the gap in the next one with GTA 6 though a potential price increase due to tariffs could prevent that from happening. I wonder if they're waiting till after this year to do that.

Sony needs a big showcase showing all of its upcoming games, it seems that Sony's studios are dead.

Yeah with the last one happening all the way back in May 2023 it's really about time for a new one. Going in depth on the PS5's first party games for the 2026-2027 period could work well since then that could cover basically everything till the launch of the PS6 when it'll be about time for the next showcase.

Blood_Tears said:
Norion said:

I wasn't expecting hardware to be slightly up YoY so this is a good quarter. It was still 0.7m behind the PS4 so the gains in the last two quarters were almost completely wiped out and it'll likely be further behind by the end of this fiscal year but there's a good opportunity for it to reduce the gap in the next one with GTA 6 though a potential price increase due to tariffs could prevent that from happening. I wonder if they're waiting till after this year to do that.

Apparently there may not be a price increase at all for PS5 in the West. A good portion of the manufacturing of it has moved out of China per Sony CFO Lin Tao to 4 countries in total to create a rotating 3 months of inventory shuffle. So we'll see what happens there but so far so good. 

Are those four countries not being hit with tariffs? Cause with how sporadic the government in the US is being with trade things could suddenly get even worse out of nowhere.

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Signalstar on 07 August 2025

This has been known for a while but it is still shocking that add on content brings in more revenue than full game sales. No wonder companies are chasing that live service model. It provides a consistent revenue stream if its a hit.



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trunkswd on 07 August 2025
jvmkdg said:

The difference is only 2.1 million units. Why is the difference bigger at 2.9 million according to vgchartz? I'm not saying the number is wrong, just a question. Congratulations on the work, trunks.

Shipment wise the difference is 2.1 million units. Our data is showing Sony has more of a stockpile with the PS5 than with the PS4. 

Sony did reveal PS5 had sold-through 56 million in March 2024 (end of FY 2023), while there were 59.3 million shipped for a confirmed gap of 3.2 million. Page 14 - https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/business_segment_meeting/pdf/2024/GNS_E.pdf

Right now our gap between sold and shipped for PS5 is 2.89 million.



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BraLoD on 07 August 2025

Should cross 90M before the year ends.



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